Shrub of the Week: Purple Beauty Berry
{Photos and text for this bgyl-alert are provided by Joe Cochran, the Curator of OSU’s Secrest Arboretum at the Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center in Wooster.}
The fruits of purple beauty berry (Callicarpa dichotoma) are among the most splendid of the fall-fruiting shrubs. On arching branches, small delicate fruits appear to be glossy pearls that have been dipped in a lilac-violet varnish. Against the light-green foliage their beauty cannot go unnoticed. Growing 4-5 ft. with a slightly larger spread, the tips often reach to the ground. A...
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